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Friday, August 24, 2012

Rainbow cake

With the twins birthday just around the corner, I have been researching cakes this morning, so I thought I would share my recipe of one of my favourite party cakes with you.

This fun cake is a bit fiddly but makes a huge impact when the beautiful white cake is cut and the colours of the rainbow are revealed. Kids (and big kids) will love it!! Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cup cornflour

1 1/4 cup plain flour

1 1/4 cup self-raising flour

1/2 tsp salt

8 eggs, at room temperature

1 1/4 cup caster sugar

Food Colouring

Method:

Grease 5 x 20cm round cake tins and line bases with baking paper. Sift flours and salt together three times to aerate.

Preheat oven to 180C. Using an electric mixer, beat eggs and sugar in a large bowl on medium-high speed for 6 minutes, or until mixture is thick, pale and tripled in volume.

Gradually sift flour mixture over egg mixture while simultaneously folding in with a large metal spoon until just combined. Divide mixture into 5 bowls and add a different colour dye to each mixture.

Divide mixtures into the 5 cake tins. To level batter, gently spin tins on kitchen counter. Bake for 5-10 minutes or until cakes have shrunk away from the sides slightly and spring back when gently touched.